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Following the Las Vegas shooting, in which a retiree murdered 59 people and wounded more than 500 when he sprayed a festival crowd with gunfire, gun-control groups and several Democrats warned that the measure would only make it more difficult to locate s...

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said the latest decision was made due to Cuba's "failure to take appropriate steps" to protect American personnel in Cuba who have been targeted in mysterious "attacks" that have damaged their health.

Patrick Benjamin Paddock was wanted for a series of bank robberies in Phoenix, Arizona. He even tried to run an FBI agent over.

Family members could not explain what would motivate a one-time accountant with no known criminal record to inflict so much carnage.

Introduced by Congresswoman Grace Meng, the resolution expresses support for the goals and ideals of the International Day of Non-Violence, and encourages the people of the United States to observe the celebration with appropriate ceremonies, programs, an...

The Nobel medicine prize committee at the Karolinska Institute is first out to announce its choice of laureates, on Monday at 11:30 am at the earliest.

Demonstrators marched through the semiautonomous Chinese region's streets on Sunday and carried banners calling for the rejection of "authoritarian rule" and demanded the city's Justice Secretary Rimsky Yuen step down.

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, head of the Iran-backed group, said events in northern Iraq, where Kurds overwhelmingly voted for independence on Monday, were a threat to the whole region and not just Iraq and neighbouring states with Kurdish populations.

Iran agreed to the nuclear deal with six major powers in exchange for the lifting of sanctions. Compliance with the nuclear restrictions is being verified by the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency.

Peter Levashov was arrested while on holiday in Barcelona in April. US prosecutors later charged him with hacking offences, accusing him of operating a network of tens of thousands of infected computers used by cyber criminals.

The new regulation, to be effective from December 18, will require almost all commercial trucks, unless a truck is in an exempted class, to buy and operate an Electronic Logging Device (ELD) to record the hours they are on and off duty.

Each crew gets only 60 square feet (18.2 square meters) to work on their prototype, prompting some to do assembly work elsewhere before moving the structure to their designated position.

Pakistan's Interior Ministry wrote to this effect to the country's election commission on Tuesday, citing international pressure and the refusal of security clearance by intelligence agencies.

Choosing his words with care, Macron said he had deliberately avoided talking about Brexit because he could "not imagine" that Britain would not want to be part of a new-look EU.

The new restrictions covering citizens of Chad, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen — and some Venezuelan government officials and their families — are to go into effect October 18.

In the English-language video released Saturday, a man identified as "Abu 'Uqayl" from Singapore took issue with Prince Harry talking about a terror attack in London while on a visit to Singapore in June.